{"id":399,"date":"2012-04-17T14:04:02","date_gmt":"2012-04-17T18:04:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.lawyer.com\/?p=399"},"modified":"2020-07-28T10:33:58","modified_gmt":"2020-07-28T14:33:58","slug":"2012-04-17-memphis-to-clean-itself-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lawyer.com\/index.php\/2012-04-17-memphis-to-clean-itself-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Memphis to Clean Itself Up"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Welcome to Memphis<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In what might be the government equivalent to a friendly “take a shower, bro” at the gym, the city of Memphis, Tennessee has agreed to spend $250 million over a decade to fix and update its sewer system<\/a> as part of a settlement. \u00a0Apparently, the occasional overflow of untreated sewage was becoming a big problem in Memphis. \u00a0Gross. \u00a0The federal government, in particular the EPA, undertook litigation to force Memphis to fix these problems. \u00a0On Monday, Memphis settled, paying a $1.29 million civil penalty (half of which will go right back to unrelated Memphis-bettering infrastructure projects) and agreeing that raw sewage is disgusting and probably shouldn’t be spewing out willy-nilly from time to time.<\/p>\n

As to what extent these $250 million improvements will go is unclear. \u00a0At least part of it will be to develop a “comprehensive fats, oil, and grease program”, which makes you wonder why there wasn’t one in the first place. \u00a0This article<\/a> shows images of a person actually kayaking through backed-up foamy white sewage sludge byproduct. \u00a0In light of that repulsive fact, maybe the best course of action would be to have the TVA come in and toss a dam in there to fix everything up.<\/p>\n

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